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Isle of Wight County Records William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vo., 7, No. 4 Apr., 1899). pp. 205-315.
WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE Quarterly Historical Magazine Vol. VII. April, 1899. No. 4 ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY RECORDS I.
Historical Sketch THE first occupants of this county known to history were the Warrascoyack Indians. Their village was seated somewhere on Burwell’s Bay, on James river, and their territory extended some five miles along the shore and twenty miles inland. Their fighting strength amounted to forty warriors. They were visited by John Smith in the summer of 1608, and fourteen bushels of corn were supplied by them to the famishing colonists at James- town. When Smith and his party set out in December, 1608, to visit Powhatan at Werewocomoco, on the York, they spent their first night at Warrascoyack. Here they left Michael Sicklemore, a valiant soldier, whom the Indian king promised to furnish with guides to search the country about Roanoke Island for the lost colony of Sir Walter Raleigh, and Samuel Collier, a boy, who was to learn the Indian language. The chief warned Smith to be on his guard against Powhatan, and acted in good faith towards Sicklemore(1) and Collier.(2) The first English settlement in Isle of Wight county was begun by Capt. Christopher Lawne and his associates, Sir Richard Worsley, knight baronet; Nathaniel Basse, gent., John Hobson, gent., Anthony Olevan, Richard Wiseman, Robt. Newland, Robert Gyner, and William Wellis. On April 27, 1619, Capt. Lawne arrived in person at Jamestown, with one hundred settlers, in a ship commanded by Capt. Evans.
(1)Sicklemore was furnished with two guides, penetrated to the Roa- noke, but found no trace of the lost colony. (2) Samuel Collier became proficient in the Indian language, and was accidently killed by a white sentinel at Kecaughtan (Hampton) in 1622. ———-Kecaughtan (Hampton) in 1622. ———-
see map of Isle of Wight
206 They settled near the mouth of a creek on the south side, still known as Lawne’s creek. This creek, whose name is sometimes written “Lyon’s Creek,” was made the dividing line between the counties of Surry and Isle of Wight, as early as 1642. Capt. Lawne and Ensign Washer represented the settlement in the first House of Burgesses, which met at Jamestown July 30, 1619. All new settlements are unhealthy, and terrible mortality prevailed among these settlers. Capt. Lawne soon died, and on November 30, 1620, the London Company ordered that “in regard of the late mortality of the persons transported heretofore by the late Capt. Lawne, his associates be granted till midsummer, 1625, to make up the number of persons which they were disposed to bring over.” They also declared that the plan- tation was to be henceforth called “Isle of Wight plantation” — a name, however, not in use till many years later. It was derived very probably from the place of residence, in England, of the principal patentees. One of them was certainly from Isle of Wight, viz., Sir Richard Worsley, probably the Richar Worley, gent., who went to Virginia in 1608. He was knighted at White Hall February 8, 1611. On November 21, 1621, Edward Bennett, a rich merchant of London, obtained a patent for a plantation conditioned on settling two hundred emigrants. His associates in the patent were his brother, Robert Bennett, and nephew, Richard Bennett, Thomas Ayres,(1) Thomas Wiseman, and Richard Wiseman. And in February, 1622, the Sea Flower arrived with one hundred and twenty settlers, headed by Capt. Ralph Hamor, one of the council; Rev. William Bennett and George Harrison, kinsmen of Edward Bennett, and connected with him in his colonization scheme. Their place of settlement was called “Warrascoyack,” and sometimes “Edward Bennett’s plantation.” On the day this patent was awarded, Arthur Swain, Capt. Nathaniel Basse and others undertook to establish another plan- tation in the same neighborhood. Capt. Basse came over in person, and his plantation was known as “Basse’s Choice,” and was situated on Warrascoyack river.
(1) Many of the kinsmen of Thomas Ayers, doubtless, came to Virginia. In Lower Norfolk County records we learn that “John Custis married the relict of Robert Eyres, dec’d” (1652, Feb. 16), and that “Sam. Chew, of Herrington, in Maryland, Esq.,” married Anne, “daughter and sole heir of William Ayres, late of Nancemond” (12 Sept., 1672).
207 The houses were building, when, in March, 1622, occurred the great massacre by the Indians. In the course of a very few hours one-fourth of the white population perished. The mortality in the plantations in Warrascoyack reached a total of fifty-three. Some miraculous escapes are recorded. The Indians came to one Baldwin’s house and wounded his wife, but Baldwin, by repeatedly firing his gun so frightened them as “to save both her, his house, himself and divers others.” At about the same time they appeared at the house of Master Harrison, half a mile from Herring Baldwin’s, where was staying Thomas Hamor, brother of Capt. Ralph Hamor, who also lived near by. The Indians pretended that they came to escort the captain to their king, who was hunt- ing in the woods. The message was sent to the captain, but, he not coming as they expected, they set fire to a tobacco house, and murdered the white people as they rushed out of Harrison’s building in order to quench the flames. Many were killed, but Thomas Hamor was saved by a chance delay. He remained to finish a letter, which he was engaged in writing. After con- cluding the letter, he went out, but seeing the commotion, and receiving an arrow in his back, he returned and barricaded the house. Then the savages set the house on fire, whereupon Hamor, with twenty-two others, fled to Baldwin’s house, leaving their own burning. In the meantime, Capt. Ralph Hamor was in utmost peril. He was on his way to meet the king, who had invited him, and came upon the savages chasing some of the whites. He returned to his new house, where, armed with only spades, axes, and brick- bats, he and his company defended themselves till the enemy gave up the seige and departed. At the house of Capt. Basse, however, in the same neighborhood, everybody was slain. Basse, who was in England at the time, escaped. The consternation occasioned by the massacre was such that the determination was taken to abandon all the plantations but seven or eight, viz., Jamestown, the settlements on the opposite side of the river (in Surry), Kecaughtan, Newports News, Southampton Hundred (including Hog Island), Flowerdieu Hundred, Sherly Hundred, and the plantation of Mr. Samuel Jordan, at Jordan’s Point. All Warrascoyack, from Hog Island down the river shore for fourteen miles, was abandoned. But vigorous efforst were made by the authorities to dislodge the Indians from the locality. In the fall succeeding the massacre
208 In the fall succeeding the masacre, an expedition was sent out under the command of Sir George Yeardley against the savages down the river. He drove out the Nansemonds and Warrascoyacks, burned their houses, and took their corn. On May 21, 1623, a commission was given to Capt. Roger Smith, who had served twelve or thirteen years in the wars in the Netherlands, to erect a fort on the shore opposite to Tindall’s Shoals, where Capt. Samuel Each had a block-house in building. In the summer of 1623 the governor sent companies in all directions against the Indians. Capt. William Tucker, of Ke- caughtan (Hampton), commanded the expedition against the Nansemonds and Warrascoyacks. On the same day, August 2, 1623, all of these commands fell upon the Indians, slaughtered many, cut down their corn, and burnt their houses. A week after, Capt. Tucker went down a second time against the Nanse- monds. The proprietors of the abandoned settlements took heart and were allowed to return to them. The census of February 6, 1623-’24, showed as then living at “Warwicke Squeake” and “Basse’s Choice” fifty-three persons; twenty-six had died “since April last.” Disease, in fact, proved more destructive to the set- elrs than everything else combined. Four-fifths of the colonists, including the new emigrants who arrived, died from this cause in the interval between 1619 and 1625. The census of 1624-’25 showed but thirty-one persons alive at Warrascoyack and Basse’s Choice. Among those who had died were Mr. Robert Bennett (brother of Edward Bennett), who had come to the colony, and the first minister, Mr. William Bennett, doubtless one of the same family. After 1625 the colony took a new and more prosperous turn, Richard Bennett and his brother, Philip Bennet, came over also to see about the interests of their uncle, Edward, and their own interests. Capt. John Hobson now arrived, and Basse, Richard Bennett and Hobson were made members of the council. In 1624 the representative from “Basse’s Choice” was John Pollington. In 1629 Warrascoycak (which term came to embrace Basse’s Choice and all the other settlements in the Isle of Wight) were Capt. Nathaniel Basse, Richard Bennett, Robert Savin and Thomas Jordan. In March following, they were John Upton, John Atkins, Robert Savin and Thomas Burges. In September, 1632, they were Thomas Jordan and William Hutchinson. In Feb-
209 In February, 1632-’33, they were John Upton and Robert Savin. All freemen had the right of suffrage till 1671. In 1634, the plantations in Virginia were divided into eight counties, and “Warrascoyack” was one of these. In 1635 the census showed five hundred and twenty-two persons in the county. In 1658 the tithables amounted to six hundred and seventy-three, which indicated a population of two thousand and nineteen. In 1637 the name of the county was changed to Isle of Wight. The same year the county of New Norfolk was formed out of Elizabeth City county, which extended on both sides of the river. New Norfolk being divided soon into Lower and Upper Norfolk (Nansemond) counties, acts were passed in 1639-’40 and 1642-’43 to determine their respective boundaries. Isle of Wight county was declared to begin at Lawne’s Creek, from thence down the river to the plantation of Richard Hayes, for- merly belonging to John Howard, including the said plantation, from thence to extend into the woods southerly to the plantation of William Norvell and Robert Pitt, including the said planta- tions and families. In 1656, the inhabitants of Terrascoe Neck and the “Ragged Islands,” formerly in Nansemond, were added to Isle of Wight. Finally, in 1674, “to settle the long disputes which had arisen between the inhabitants of Isle of Wight and of Nansemond,” because of the uncertainty attending the true courses of the dividing creeks and branches, the General As- sembly enacted that “a southwest by south line be run from the river side at Hayes’ plantation (including that plantation in Isle of Wight) to the creek at or near the plantation called Norvell’s Oyster Bank, thence up the creek to Col. Pitt’s Creek, thence southwest half a point westerly indefinitely extended, provided, nevertheless, that the house and cleared grounds of Capt. Thomas Godwin, who hath been an ancient inhabitant of Nansemond county, be deemed in the county of Nansemond, anything in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.” Till March, 1642-’43, the county had but one parish. Rev. Thomas Faulkner was the minister. In that year, it was divided into two, known as the Upper and Lower Parishes, the former extending from Lawne’s Creek to the creek on the eastern side of the bay (Pagan’s), dividing the plantations of Samuel Davis and Joseph Cobbs, and the latter from Pagan’s Point, upon the bay, including all the southerly side of the main river.
210 In 1680, Mr. Robert Parke was minister in the Upper parish, and Mr. William Hodsden minister in the Lower. In 1700-1719, Rev. Andrew Monro was minister of the Upper parish. In 1724, Rev. Alexander Forbes, who came to Virginia in 1710, was min- ister of the Upper parish. He described it as extending on the river twenty-one miles (?), and reaching back sixty miles to the North Carolina line. The number of assessed persons was then seven hundred. The value of his living was L80 currency, or L65 sterling, paid with sixteen thousand pounds of tobacco, “which in this parish very often doth not produce half that sum.” There were then private schools in the parish — no public. In the same year Thomas Baylie was minister of the Lower parish. He was formerly minister of St. John’s church, Baltimore county, Md., and came to Virginia in 1719. His conduct was drunkenly and disorderly; quite a contrast to his colleage — Alexander Forbes. He described his parish as eight miles on the river side and twenty (?) in breadth. It had four hundred families. He offi- ciated at the mother church, and at the chapel, nineteen miles from the former, as well as at Chuckatuck, in Nanesemond county. His church was decently provided with furniture, but it had no font, and he had no surplice. His salary was from L50 to L70, according to the rise or fall of tobacco, in which he was paid. There were in this parish four small public shools, taught by a Mr. Hurst, Mr. Irons, Mr. Gills and Mr. Reynolds. In 1725-’26, Rev. Mr. Barlow was minister of the Upper parish, then in 1729 Rev. John Gammill was minister. In 1734, the Legislature erected into a separate parish all the country south of the Black Water river, and called it Nottoway parish, and this parish was made into Southampton county in 1748. Such parts of the parishes of “Warwick Squeak” (Upper parish) and Newport as were north of the Black Water were formed into one, and named “Newport parish.” In 1736, William Bidgood was clerk of the Upper church, and Joseph Weston clerk of the “Brick church,” which seems to show that the present St. Luke’s, near Smithfield, was originally in the Lower parish. Rev. John Camm (afterwards President of William and Mary College) suc- ceeded Rev. John Gammill in 1745, and then followed Rev. John Reid from March 8, 1746, to April, 1757; Rev. Mr. Milner from February, 1766, to May 3, 1770; Rev. Henry John Burges(1) from(1) In the churchyard at Williamsburg is a tombstone to the memory of “Ann Burges, wife of Rev. Henry John Burges, of Isle of Wight, who died Dec. 25, 1771, in giving birth to an infant daughter.”
(211) 1773 to 1776; Rev. William Hubard, who died on the Glebe in 1802; Rev. Samuel Butler, who officiated occasionally in 1780, and Rev. William G. H. Jones, who officiated from 1826 to 1832. To this list of ministers might be added the names of Robert Bracewell, who died in Isle of Wight about 1667, and of Robert Dunster, who died in 1656. The Southside counties had many dissenters among their population. Col. Byrd attributed the fact to the low grade of tobaco grown in those counties, which rendered the support of a competent clergy difficult and precarious. At an early day a con- siderable Puritan party developed, at the head of whom were the brothers, Richard and Philip Bennett, who had settled in Nanse- mond county. Upon their invitation New England sent to Vir- ginia three Congregational ministers, but Governor Berkeley gave them a dose of the medicine, which they had long been ad- ministering to Episcopalians in their own country. He banished them from the colony, and got the Legislature to enact a law against all non-conformists. The consequence of this ill-advised policy was that there was a considerable emigration to Maryland. From Lower Norfolk county William Durand and Dr. Thomas Harrison, who were in charge of the churches there, carried off quite a number of prominent families — Lloyds, Marshes, Pres- tons, etc. They settled along the river Severn, in Maryland, and, after the Puritan spirit, soon tried to dictate to Lord Baltimore. Richard Bennett, however, though obtaining large tracts of land in Maryland, lived most of his life and died in Nansemond, managing to keep in some sort of conformity with the Church of England, for Puritanism did not necessarily mean Congrega- tionalism, or severance from the Church. His grandson, Richard Bennett, was the richest man in Maryland. His uncle, Edward Bennett, of London, left two daughters, one of whom, Mary, married, first, Thomas Bland, of London; second, Luke Cropley. The other, Silvestra, married Major Nicholas Hill, who came to Virginia, and was one of the leading men of Isle of Wight county. Mary, a daughter of the first-named daughter, Mary Bland-Cropley, married James Day of Isle of Wight, Va., and Mary, a daughter of Silvestra Hill, the other daughter of Edward Bennett, married John Jennings, son of the clerk of the same name. After the restoration of King Charles II, the Quakers had a strong following, especially in the Upper parish.
(212) William Edmundson, a friend of George Fox, visited this neighborhood in 1671, and met General Richard Bennett, “who,” he said, “re- ceived the truth and died in the same, leaving two friends his executors.” The able lawyer and preacher, Thomas Story, of Philadelphia, came in 1699 and 1705, and held many “open and comfortable meetings” in this and other parts of Virginia, viz., at Edward Thomas’ house on Queen Creek, York county; at Daniel Akehurst’s and Thomas Cary’s, on Warwick river; at Robert Perkins’, at Martin’s Hundred; at John Bates’, at Skimeno, York county, and at Chuckatuck, where he met with “his ancient friend,’ Elizabeth Webb, of Gloucestershire, Eng- land, and John Copeland, who at his request showed him his mutilated right ear, being “one of the first of those who had their ears cut by the Presbyterians, or Independents, of New England.”(1) There was a yearly meeting at “Levy Neck” (still known by that name), and the chief Quakers were Dr. John Grove, William Bressy, and Thomas Jordan. Col. Joseph Bridger, Major Thomas Taberer, and General Richard Bennett, and many others of the leading men sympa- thized with the Quakers, and while the Quakers were sometimes fined for non-conformity, they had their own meeting-houses and practically their own way. After 1699 their houses were regu- larly licensed, and there is in the Gazette for 1736 an address signed by the leading Quakers of the Colony in which they admit they had nothing to complain of except their being taxed to support the State, or Episcopal Church. In their address to Lord Botetourt in 1768 they spoke of the “particular indulgence and protection they had enjoyed during the reign of King George III.,” which had impressed their minds “with the warmest sense of duty and gratitude.” The records which follow show that the emigrants to Isle of Wight were largely people from Bristol, where, in the civil wars, the Cavaliers were very strong. For attempting to surrender that place to Prince Rupert in 1643, Robert Yeamans and Henry Boucher lost their lives. The former’s son, Sir John, emigrated to Barbadoes, and subsequently established a colony in South Carolina. Sir John’s nephew, Joseph Woory, lived and died in Isle of Wight county. In 1666, Woory accompanied Robert San- ford on a voyage of discovery along the coast of Carolina.
(1) Friends’ Library.
(213) In 1653, soon after Virginia yielded to the authority of the Parliament, the two representatives from the Isle of Wight, John Hammond and James Pyland, were expelled from the House of Burgesses — the one because of his “scandalous” character, and “being a frequent disturber of the peace of the country,” and the other because of his “abetting Thomas Woodward,” a noted loyalist, in his “mutinous and rebellious declaration” against the Parliament. John Hammond, really a fine character, removed to Maryland, where he was a friend of Lord Baltimore, and was the author of “Leah and Rachell,” a most interesting tract on the relations of Virginia and Maryland. Woodward, for whom Pyland suffered, had been assay-master of the mint to Charles I., patented in Isle of Wight and in 1665 was appointed the first surveyor of the Province of North Carolina. He appears to have had at least two sons, John Woodward, who died in England, and Thomas, of Virginia. In 1667, the fleet of merchant ships from Bristol, which traded with the Southside, was suddenly attacked at the mouth of the Elizabeth river by four Dutch men of war, and twenty of the vessels were destroyed. The damage would have been greater, had not Major-General Bennett, in command of the Southside counties, arrived on the scene, and driven off the invaders. In 1671, the Dutch came again, with further disastrous re- sults, to the Bristol ships, which, however, were revenged in the end in the seizure of New York by the English. In Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) Isle of Wight was the scene of constant foray. Col. Joseph Bridger(1) headed the followers of Berkeley, and John Jennings, clerk of the court, was the most noted of Bacon’s adherents. He was banished from the colony. but died before the decree could be carried into effect. Among the interesting places, the plantation of Edward Ben- nett deserves notice. His personal share of land appears to have been fifteen hundred acres of land, and by a deed recorded in the secretary’s office, dated April 8, 1663, this land was divided between his daughters, Silvestra, the wife of Major Nicholas Hill, and Mary, the wife of Thomas Blan
(1) Sir John Berry names among the eminent sufferers by Bacon’s Rebellion Col. Joseph Bridger, “a very Resolute gentleman, who, though forced to fly in the heat of war from his own countrie, yet on his Return was very Active and Instrumental in reducing to their obedience the South parte of James River,” &c.
(214) Silvestra’s share Silvestra’s share Silvestra’s share was the upper moiety, and began at a locust post on the river side, and ran for length three hundred and twenty poles southwest into the woods, and for breadth three hundred and seventy-five poles up the river to a marked tree in a valley near a place called “The Rocks” (still known as such). Mary’s share was the lower moiety. It began at the locust post on the river side, ran down the river by Felgate’s Island, and bounded on Pollington’s Point (Day’s Point?), three lines of Peter Hull’s land to a branch of Hutchinson’s Creek. Maj. Hill, in 1674, left this land to his son, George Hill, after the death of his wife, Silvestra. Silvestra Hill by her will left 550 acres of this land to Mary Baker, wife of Major Henry Baker. Col. Nathaniel Bacon, Sen., had a plantation near by, which fell to his heiress, Abigail Smith, who married Major Lewis Bur- well, of Gloucester county. By degrees the Burwells absorbed much of the land in the neighborhood. In the Virginia Gazette, about the latter part of the last century, is an advertisement, which describes the Burwell estate as “ten miles below Hog Island, containing thirty-five hundred acres, whereon are three plantations, cleared and in good order for cropping, sufficient to work thirty-five hands. On the Manor plantation is a handsome brick house, sixty by twenty-six feet, two stories high, well fin- ished and wainscoated, with two brick houses forty feet by twenty, barns, stables and every other necessary house, a handsome garden completely laid off, a hundred and five yards by seventy- five. On the three plantations there are about seventeen hundred apple trees, and a great variety of other fruit. Near the said land is a tract containing eighty-five acres, with a well-accus- tomed mill thereon, and as fine a stream as any in Virginia”. “Basse’s Choce” originally called for three hundred acres, but its acreage was really four hundred, of which two hundred and fifty acres was marsh land. Mr. Peter Knight, who may have married one of Basse’s daughters, patented one hundred and fifty acres of the same in 1640, and two hundred and fifty-five in 1643. It was situated on the east side of Pagan Bay. Peter Knight sold the tract to John Bland, the eminent London mer- chant, and in 1659-’60 the General Assembly ordered Mr. Wil- liam Drummond as agent of “the coheirs of Basse” to pay Theod- orick Bland, of Westover, brother and agent of John Bland, twenty-five hundred pounds of tobacco damages awarded in some suit probably affecting this land.
(215) In 1675, Giles Bland, son and agent of John Bland, sold “Basse’s Choice” to Major Thomas Taberer; and Sarah Bland, wife of John, relinquished her dower. In a patent to Taberer in 1681, it was described as “beginning at ye mouth of Polentine (Pollington) (1) swamp, which divides ye sd Taberer’s land from ye land of Mr. James Day, thence up the said swamp north 32 degrees west, 80 poles to a locust saplin in John Munger’s line, then by Munger’s south west 92 poles to a white oak near ye head of a small gutt, thence down ye sd gutt south 25 degrees westerly 60 poles to Hutchinson’s (2) creek, and thence by various courses down ye sd creek and ye Crosse creek to ye Maine Pagan creeke, then northeast by ye Maine creek side 120 poles to ye mouth of said Taberer’s own creeke, then up that creek and Jones’ hole creek to a locust post in ye marsh, and then north 53 degrees west 40 poles to ye first station.” Major Taberer left the estate to his grandson, Joseph Cope- land, probably a relative of John Copeland visited by Thomas Story. “Warrascoyack River” was changed to “New Town Haven Creek,” thence to “Pagan Creek,” “Pagan” being orig- inally the name of a point of land. Smithfield was laid out in 1752 by Col. Arthur Smith; and Robert Burwell, Arthur Smith, William Hodsden, James Baker, James Dunlop, James Arthur and Joseph Bridger were the first trustees. Among the more interesting personages, besides those already mentioned may be named Capt. John Upton, who came to Virginia in 1622, aged twenty-six, and served as a member of the House of Burgesses, and as Mint Master General; Capt. John Moon, Henry King and Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, all three of whom established free schools; Col. Robert Pitt, of Bristol, a member of the council; Col. James Powell, Major George Fawdon, Lt.-Col. John George, Major Henry Baker, Major Nicholas Smith and George Hardy. The value of real estate in Isle of Wight for 1895 was $1,457,- 043; value of personalty, $498,420; number of white inhabi- tants, 6,130; colored 5,183.
(1) Feb. 16, 1623-’24, John Pollentin, Rachel Pollentin, and Margaret Pollentin were resident at Warricksqueake. In 1626, John Pollington is names has having a patent for 600 acres in Isle of Wight, not not loca- ted. In 1624, he was a delegate for Basse’s Choice. (2) William Hutchinson, in 1624-’25, was living at Elizabeth City. He came in 1618. In 1632 he represented Warrascoyack in the House of Burgesses.
(216) The soil is generally sandy andThe soil is generally sandy and thin, but in some parts exceedingly rich. Smithfield has a popu- lation of about 1200, and does a large business. It has long been celebrated for its “hams”, which commanded the highest price in the market. Windsor, a station on the Norfolk & Western Rail- road, is a place of some importance. The courthouse is about eight miles from Windsor, and seven miles from Smithfield. Isle Of Wight has an area of two hundred and ninety-two and one- third square miles, and the land has an average assessed value of $7.50 per acre.
II. MASSACRED BY THE INDIANS ON GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1622. TOTAL KILLED IN VIRGINIA, 347, OUT OF A POPULA- TION OF 1,240 KILLED AT MR. EDWARD BENNETT’S PLANTATION. Master Th. Brewood, his wife, his childe, Robert Gray, John Griffin, Ensigne Harrison, John Costard, David Barry, Thomas Sheppard, Henry Price, Robert ———, Edward Jolby, Richard ———-, 2 servants, Thomas Ferris, George Cole, Remember Michel, ———- Bullocke, Richard Chandler, Henry Moore, Nicholas Hunt, John Corderoy, Richard Cockwell, John Howard, Mistris Har- rison, Mary Dawks, Alice Jones, Thomas Cooke, Philip Worth, Mathew, a maid, Francis Winder, Thomas Conly, Richard Wood- ward, Humfrey Cropen, Thomas Bacon, Euan Watkins, Richard Lewis, Edward Towse, John Scotchmore, Edward Turner, Mr. John Pountis his men, Edward Brewster, Lieutenant Pierce his men, Thomas Holland, Capt. Whittaker’s man, Annie English, Rebecca ———-, Master Prowse, Hugh ———-, John ———-, Edward ———-, Mistris Chamberlin, Parnel, a maid, Humfrey Sherbrooke, John Wilkins, John Burton. — Total, 53. A LIST OF NAMES OF THE LIVING IN VIRGINIA FEBRUARY THE 16, 1624, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TOTAL, 1,170 AT WARWICK SQUEAK. John Batt, Henry Pinffe, Wassell Weblin, Anthony Read, Frances Woodson, Henry Phillips, Peter Collins, Chr. Reinold’s, Edward Mabin, John Maldman, Thomas Collins, George Rush- more, Thomas Spencer, George Clarke, Rich. Bartlett, Francs Banks, John Jenkins, Thomas Jones, William Denham; Peter, Anthony, Fransc, Margrett, netros; John Bennett, Nicholas Skinner, John Atkins, John Pollentin, Rachel Pollentine, Mar- grett Pollentin, Mary, a maid, Henry Woodward, Thomas Sawyer, Thomas, a boye. — Total 33, including 4 negroes.
(217) AT BASSE CHOISE. Capt. Nathaniel Basse, Samuell Basse, Benjamine Simes, Thomas Sherwood, Benjamine Handcleare, William Barnard, John Shelly, Nathaniell Moper, Natha. Gammon, Margrett Giles, Richard Longe, vx Longe, infans Longe, Richard Evans, William Newman, John Army, Peter Langden, Henry, Andrew Rawley, Petter. — Total, 20 MUSTER OF THE INHABITANTS IN VIRGINIA. TAKEN IN 1625. TOTAL, 1,095. THE MUSTER OF THE INHABITANTS AT WARISCOYACK, TAKEN THE 7TH OF FEBRUARY, 1625. The Muster of Mr. Edward Bennett’s Servants. Henry Pinke came in the London Marchannt 1619, John Bate in the Addam 1621, Peter Collins in the Addam 1621, Wassell Webbling, Antonio, a negro, in the James 1621, Christo- pher Reynold’s, Luke Chappman, Edward Maybank, in the John & Grancis 1622, John Attkins, William Denum, Francis Banks, in the Guifte 1623, Mary, a negro woman, in the Margrett & John 1622. A MUSTER OF THE INHABITANTS OF BASSE CHOYSE. Capt. Nathaniell Basse his Muster. Nathaniell Basse, aged 35, in the Furtherance 1622. William Barnard, aged 21, in the Furtherance 1622. Edward Wigge, aged 22, in the Abigall 1621. The Muster of Thomas Phillipes. Thomas Phillipes, aged 26, in the William and Thomas 1618. Elizabeth Phillipes, aged 23, in the Sea Flower 1621/ The Muster of Thomas Bennett. Thomas Bennett, aged 38, in the Neptune 1618. Mary Bennett, aged 18, in the Southampton 1622. Roger Heford, aged 22, in the Returne 1623. Benjamine Simes,(1), aged 33 in the ———.
(1) Benjamine Syms afterwards settled in Elizabeth City Co., and by his will in 1634 provided for the first free school in America. The funds are still used to conduct the High School in Hampton.
(218) Richard Longe His Muster Richard Longe, aged 33, Alice Longe, aged 23, in the London Marchant 1620. Robert Longe, a child borne in Virginia. Richard Evand’s His Muster Richard Evand’s, aged 35. in the Neptune 1618. William Newman His Muster. William Newman, aged 35, in the Furtherance 1622. John Army, aged 35, in the Furtherance 1622. Henrie Woodward His Muster. Henrie Woodward, aged 30, in the ——. John Browninge, aged 22, in the Abigall 1621. Servants. Ambrose, aged 25, in the Marmiducke 1621. Peeter, aged 19, in the Margett and John 1620. Total muster living at Basse’s and Warrascoyack, 31. A LIST OF THE DEAD IN WARISCOYACKE 1624 (25). John Selley, Nathaniell Haukworth [or Hankworth], Thomas Sherwoud, Benjamin Handcleare, Margrett Synes; Nathaniell, Thomas, servants; of Mr. Bennett’s men slayne by the Indianes, five. PATENTS GRANTED, ETC., 1626. (1) Warosquoiacke Plantation contayneing downe ward’s from Hog Island xiiijteen miles by the River side, in weh are these patents following, vizt.: John Carter, 100 acres, Christopher Daniel, 100, Adam Dixson, 100, John Berry, 100, Thomas Winter, 100 By Pattent. John Pollington, 600 Thomas Poole, 100, Anthony Barham,(2) 100, Capt. Natha. Basse, 300, planted, Giles Jones, 150, planted, (1) From Hotten’s “Lists of Emigrants to America.” (2) Anthony Barham was member of House of Burgesses for Mulberry Island, March, 1629-’30. An abstract of his will has been published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Among other legatees are his mother Bennett, and brother-in-law, Richard Bennett. Charles Barham was justice of Surry county about 1674. See Virginia Magazine, Vol. III, p. 278.
(219) III. ABSTRACTS OF IMPORTANT DEEDS, WILLS AND ORDERS, ON RECORD IN CLERK’S OFFICE OF ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY. 1. Deed and Will Book, transcribed from the old records in 1733 by James Baker, Clerk. Will of Timothy Fern X mark, dated this last of January, 1651: 200 acres to eldest son, 100 to youngest son; my wife to have the use of the 300 acres, till sons of age; mentions a daughter; lands in Rappahannock to the 3 children; one steer for my funeral; friends Daniel Boucher and John Munger overseers of my will. Justinian Cooper to Alice Bennett, widow, 150 acres for a cow, calf and one bbl. of corn. 19 Charles I. Will of Roger Bagnall X mark, Oct. 19, 1647: Land and personalty; names wife Rebecca and son James; cows, corn, tobacco, etc. Will of Richard Death, dated March 3, 1647: Realty and personalty. Will of Edward Welmoth, dated Feb. 15, 1647: Names wife Annis, dau. Francis, son John; John Jackson and George Cor- beraft overseers. Capt. John Upton, for love and affection, to Christopher Benn (cooper), 50 acres. Will of Anthony Jones, dated Aug. 16, 1649: Legacy to brother William Jones, if he comes to this country; dau. in-law Ann Smith, the plantation I know live on; sister Catherine Jones 5L sterl.; Thomas and John Smith 2000 acres on The Black- water, as recorded at Jamestown; wife Ann sole and whole exor. Witnesses: Robert Watson, Edwd Chetwyne, Thomas Braser. Will of Edward Chetwyne, dated Sept. 7, 1649: Legatees James House, Thomas Attwell, Christopher Holms, John Young, Robert Watson, Henry Pitt, John Inglish, Nicholas Aldred, Mrs. Anne Jones, and all her children; Robert Watson and Henry Pitt, exors. Witnesses: Thomas Brook, and Gulielm. Ruffin. Will of Wm. Jewry, dated June 1, 1651: Legatees, Elizabeth Penny, dau. of Richard Penny, Robert Ruffin, son of Wm. Ruffin, John Arran, son of John Arran. Witnesses, Richard Penny, R. P. [his mark], William Ruffin X R. [mark], William West- ray [mark].
220 Will of Robert Watson, dated Nov., 6, 1651: Names wife and brothers John and James. Will of John Vasser, dated Jan’y 16, 1650: “I, John Vasser, the unprofitable servant of God,” etc.: Mr. James Pyland and Thomas Walter overseers; children, John Vasser (eldest son), Mildred, Peter and Ann Vasser, eldest dau. Elizabeth Vasser. Witnesses, John Lewis, Richard Ames, Thomas Walter. Will of John Valentine, planter, X mark: Names eldest son James, duas. Ann and Elizabeth, wife Elizabeth. Will of John Stiles X mark, Oct. 26, 1652: 200 a. and per- sonalty to son John; godson John Murry; gaddau. Elizabeth Johnson; goddau. Joane Maddin; wife Elizabeth Stiles; friend Humphrey Clark overseer of will. Deed of Capt. John Vpton and Margaret his wife, M. V., X her mark. Will of Capt. John Vpton, dated 16 Jan., 1651 — proved Dec. 16, 1652: “I, Capt. John Vpton, of the Isle of Wight county, in Virginia.” To eldest son John Vpton, all that tract of land being part of it in the tenure of John King, James Bagnall, Nicholas Morris, etc., containing in the whole eight hundred and fifty acres, and if the said John Vpton dies before he comes to the age of one and twenty, then I give and bequeath the said land until William, Elizabeth, Sarah and Margaret Vnderood, to be divided as followeth, &c., To said son a mare fole and one cow with calf, being upon the probate of my will sett apart for him with their increase to be equally shared amongst my daughters-in- law Elizabeth, Sarah and Margaret Vnderwood. “To William Vnderwood, Elizabeth, Sarah and Margaret Vnderwood 1500 acres near Ambrose Bennett’s and allways reserved out of this land Three Hundred acres with Mr. Robert Bracewell hath. To William, Elizabeth, Sarah and Margaret Vnderwood all my land at Rappahannock, &c. All the rest of my Estate, Goods, Chat- tels, servants, &c., to whatsoever here in Virginia after my Debts, Legacies and funerall rights paid and discharged I give &c. to my Loving and Welbeloved Wife Margaret Vpton, whom I con- stitute &c. sole executrix of this my last Will and Testament.” Loving friends, George ffawdon, William Vnderwood and James Taylor, clerk, my overseers to see my will performed. To each of my overseers a ring 20 shilling sterling apiece.
221 Likewise ordains Ann Williamson, the wife of James Williamson equal sharer in my land at Rappahannock with these above named. (1) To Elizabeth Vnderwood one pillion and one pillion cloth at day of marriage. Proved by the oaths of William Vnderwood and Ed- ward Skinner. Witnesses, John Gallins X mark, James Taylor. Will of Joseph Cobbs X mark, March, 1653: Wife Elizabeth 300 a. and personalty; sons Benjamin Cobbs and Pharaoh; dau. Elizabeth Cobbs. Witnesses, Joseph Dunn, John Childs. Will of Christopher Reynolds, dated May 1, 1654: Children, Christopher, John, Abbasha, Elizabeth, Jane, child my wife now goeth with, Richard; wife Elizabeth; a yearling heifer to George Rivers; to son Christopher all my lands on southerly side of the swamp that Richard Jordan now lives upon. Will of Joshua Taberer: To brother Thomas Taberer all the estate left me by my father William Taberer of the county of Darby, he bestowing as a legacy to my brother William Taberer of the co. of Derby, and the rest of my father’s kindred 10 pds. sterling or the value thereof out of my said Estate in England. After my brother Thomas’ death, his only dau. and heir, Ruth Taberer to be possessed with all my aforesaid Estate in England; to said Ruth 4 female cattle in Virginia; and the remainder of my whole estate in Virginia to my brother Thomas Taberer. Witnesses: William Lewer, Francis Higgins. Margaret, relict of Lt. Col. John Upton, deed to Francis Slaughter 850 a. March 8, 1655. Will of Hunphrey Clark, Cooper, dated M’rch 3, 1655: Wife Jane, son John, daughter-in-law Jane Brunt. “I do give unto my two kinswomen Jane How and Mary Clarke each of them one Cow Calf to be delivered this Fall; and whereas Mary Clark is a convenant Servant for seven years, I do remitt and give her Three years of her time.
(1) James Williamson married Ann Underwood and removed from Isle of Wight, with the Underwoods, to Rappahannock. John Hammond dedicated to him his tract “Leah and Rachel.” It was a tradition that his daughter married William Ball, jr., (see Hayden’s Va. Gen., p. 53), and this is proved by a case in Barradall’s reports, which recites that “William Ball was gr.son and heir of the mortgagor James Williamson, merchant, residing in Virginia, who mortgaged estate in England by deeds dated 19th and 20th Nov., 1655.”
222 Then I do desire and appoint that my servants shall be kept together and that half of the Benefit of and that half of the Benefit of their Labours shall be made use of for the maintenance of my son John to school; legacies to Thomas Holmes, John Wil- liams, and William Godwin; Robert Bird overseer. Will of Robert Dunster, recorded May 17, 1656: To wife all cattle, household goods, wearing apparel and books to brother Leonard Dunster half a crown and to his son William Dunster half a crown; desires to be buried in “the usual burying place in this county.” John Askue [mark] agrees for 2500 lb. tobacco to sell his place with all of its apple, peach and cherry trees, May 10, 1655. Will of John Oliver, dated April 19, 1652: proved Jan. 16, 1658: Wife Ellen, two daus. and son John; James Pyland and Robert Bird overseers of his will; witnesses, James Pyland, John Burton and John Renney [mark]. Will of “Capt. John Moon, of Isle of Wight county, in Vir- ginia, and Born at Berry, near Gosport, in ye parish of Stoak in Hampshire in England:” To wife Prudence Moon (my debts being paid) one-fourth part of all my movable estate (that is to say) the same to be equally divided between my wife and three daughters Sara, Susanna and Mary Moon. To eldest dau. Sarah Moon my dwelling House near Bethlehem, with ye land and houses from Pagan creek &c.; To second dau. Susannah Moon all the land that Samuel Nichols now liveth on on the Easterly side of Bethlehem Creek, that land now named Bethsaida; To Mary Moon another daughter, all lands and houses wh lyeth on Red Pt. &c. My brew house and land at James Town to be sold for the payment of my debts. Various other devises; Legacies — “to Joane Garland my wives dau., to William Wilson my wives son, to Peter Garland my wives son-in-law.” His land in Eng- land by Berry and Alvenstoak in Hampshire, near Gosport and Portsmouth, mortgaged to Mr. Owen Jennings for 200 pounds sterling, to be redeemed if not to be sold outright and the pro- ceeds divided between my three daus. 5 pds sterling to the poor of Berry and 5 pds to the poor of Alvenstoak, the interest thereof to be given to the poor in each place yearly. “Also I give and be- queath four ffemale cattle to remain for a Stock forever for poor Fatherless Children that hath nothing left them to bring them up, and for Old People past their labour or Lame People that are Destitute in this lower parish of the Isle of Wight county;
223 The ffemale from time to time to be disposed of to those that do keep such persons, to have the milk, provided that those that have them be careful of them they receive and of their Increase. My will is that all ye ffemale Increase from time to time be and re- main for a Stock for this use, and the male cattle and old cows to be disposed of for clothing and Schooling and the like necessaries for such persons, on condition as is before expressed, and the overseers of the Poor with consent of my children from time to time are to see this my will in this particular really performed as is in my will expressed and not otherways.” Recorded 12 August, 1655. Gift of Major George Fawdon to Isaac George, son of Major John George, 100 acres, Oct. 27, 1654. Memorandum of Nathaniel Bacon regarding the estate of Major George Fawdon, 1655. Deed of Charles Barecroft to his wife Magdalen and son Wil- liam, 10 April, 1657. Deed of George Fawdon for 1500 acres to Mrs. Ann Smith whom he intends to make his wife, 30 Oct. 1654. Witnesses, Richard Clark, Thos. Woodward. Memorandum to the deed next above: “All of which above men- tioned jointure and Dowry the nuptials being now celebrated, Wee George and Ann ffawdon do oblidge ourselves never to alien- ate, Release or in any way alter without the consent and approba- tion of our ffather-in-law, Nathaniel Bacon (1) and our Mother Ann his wife with our Brother William Smith.” Signed George Faw- don, Ann Fawdon. Witnesses, Thos. Woodward, Richard Clark. Recordature 16 Martii, 1654-5.
(1)Nathaniel Bacon, Sen., was son of Rev. James Bacon and Martha Woodward. He was cousin of Nathaniel Bacon, Jun., the Rebel. He appears to have married, first, Ann Smith, a widow, who was perhaps Ann Bassett, as Capt. William Bassett calls Nathaniel Bacon brother. He married next Elizabeth Kingsmill, widow of Col. Wm. Tayloe. His grandmother was Elizabeth Honiwood, celebrated for her charities. Nathaniel Bacon’s aunt Bridget married Sir Thomas Lyddall, and their son Col. George Lyddall lived in New Kent, Va. So here was a regular net-work of relatives — cavaliers — settled at this time in Virginia: Na- thaniel Bacon, Sen., Thomas Woodward, assay-master of the mint to Charles I., Sir Philip Honiwood, George Lyddall, Capt. William Bas- sett, Col. Robert Abrahall, Col. Joseph Foster, &c. See Woodward pedi- gree in Familiae Minorum Gentium IV., p. 1300, Keith’s Ancestry of Benj. Harrison and QUARTERLY II., p. 216, &c.
224 Deed of George Lobb (1) to Richard Jordan 50 a. Dec. 21, 1653. Deed of Gyles Jones of Elizabeth City co., Gent., to Justinian Cooper and Ann his wife, late relict of James Hrris, for 100 acres on Warwicksqueak Bay, patented by said Jones Dec. 14, 1629. Dated 19 Oct., 4th year of Charles I. Deed of Justinian Cooper and Anne his wife, relict &c. to Wassall Weblin, and Geo. Fadoine of Warwicksqueak, 28 Sept. 1629. Justinian Cooper and Ann his wife to John George for two steers and 1500 lb of tobacco the Robert Bennett tract and the Quarter tract of 200 acres, part of a patent of 2000, March 16, 1642. Deed dated April 25th, 21 Charles I. Edward Bruce to George Stevens, George Hardy and John Watkins April 15, 1646, one water mill at head of Lawn’s Creek. Will of Justinian Cooper, “sick and weak of body,” dated 26 March, 1650: To all his godchildren a cow calf apiece; names Brother Richard Cossey, Edward Pyland son of James Pyland; Wife Anne Cooper; friend Capt. William Barnard (2) appointed overseer. “I give unto Capt. William Barnard a piece of plate of ten pounds price, to be paid him the next year 1651.” Justinian Cooper, X mark. 2. Deeds, Orders, etc., 1664, &c. John Jennings, Clerk of the Court, 1667. Power of atty from Walter Tucker of Lyme Regis in the county of Dorsett, mrchant, to Mr. Samuel Tucker of Bristol to recover the estate of his coz. John Edwards in Virginia, lately deceased. Dated 27 Sept. 1664. Similar power from Samuel Tucker, of Ratcliffe. Receipt of Robert Burridge of Lyme Regis in Dorsett, mer- chant, of a full account of my goods lately in the custody of John Edwards, lately deceased in Virginia, &c., to Samuel Tucker. Dated 27 Sept., 1664.
(1) George Lobbs is referred to by John Ferrar, brother of Nicholas
225 Power of atty from Wm. Wilson (1) of the city of Bristol, mrchant, to friend Mr. John Watson. Dated 26 April, 1666. Capt. George Hardy’s wife was Mary, dau. of Mr. Richard Jackson, late of the county, deceased. 19 June, 1666. Letter of atty of Capt. William Woolard to Mr. John Cary to make public clayme to the estate of Justinian Cooper, dec. Dated 20 Feb., 1666. Samuel Davis, of Carolina, province of Albemarle Co., planter, sonne of Samuel Davis, late resident in the Isle of Wight Co., to Nicholas Cobb. Dated 1667. Receipt of William Addams, of Kenton, in the co. of Devon, brother of Capt. Thomas Adams, late inhabitant in the county of Isle of Wight in Virginia. Dated 1664. Thos. Pitt 28 years in 1664; and Arthur Skynner 31 yrs. in 1664. William Ruffin’s power to his son Robert Ruffin. 22 Aug. 1667. Deed noting that Capt. Henry Pitt was deceased. Mr. Thomas Pitt “sonne and Heir.” His widow Anne married Capt. James Powell. Before she married Pitt, she was the widow of Mr. Robert Watson. Dated 27 Aug. 1666. Thomas Harris and Alice X his wife, 1664. Commissioners ye 9th of ffebry, 1666: Prsent, Coll. Robt Pitt, Mr. Nich Smith, Lt Coll Jno. George, Capt. ffrancis Hobbs, Capt. Anthony ffulgeham. Power from William Jennings of the City of Bristoll, surgeon, to Thomas Moore of Pagan Creek to receive goods &c. of Arthur Skynner, Gyles Driver, and Joseph Whitson, and by virtue of a power from John Hardiman of Bristol, tayler; 29 June, 1667. Deed of Francis Hobbs and Mary his wife for land near the land of Coll Nathaniel Bacon, 1667. Assignment of William Oldis and wife Jane. 1665. Charles Smyth of the Parish St. Savoirs, Southwark, in Surry Co. (England), grocer, his power to Gyles Driver on James River to collect debts of George Moore and Henry King. 1663. (1) This was probably Col. William Wilson, of Elizabeth City, progeni- tor of the Wilson families of Elizabeth City and Lower Norfolk Cos. His daughter Mary married Miles Cary, of Elizabeth City Co., also from Bristol.Ferrar, the last deputy of the London Company, as one of the principal silk-raisers in Virginia. Neill’s Va. Carolorum, p. 241. (2) Member of the Council, married Lucy Higginson, and described by John Ferrar as “that Stout Colonel.”
226 Deed stating that Anthony Spiltimber,(1) of Surry, formerly commences suit against John Jennings before the Govr and Council in Sept. 1665, in right of Mary his wife, dau. of Mr. Robert Harris, formerly of the Isle of Wight, deceased, and sister unto Martha, daughter of the said Robert Harris and late wife to John Jennings, concerning an interest in land which I suppose fell to me by right of marrying the said Mary youngest sister to the said Martha, which the said Jennings in his right to the part of the Land altogeather defended; which suit &c. John Spiltimber was father of Anthony &c. Bill of exchange of Henry Filmer (2) in favor of Mr. Stephen Watts, merchant of Bristol, for 17L 10s, for value received of John Scott, mariner, of Bristol. Addressed to “Mr. Robt ffilmer Esqr., living near ye Talbott att ye sign of ye Goat, London.” “Your loving Uncle Henry ffilmer.” Recorded 16 June, 1668. Capt. Francis Hobbs, aged 40 in 1664. Robert Kae, aged 36. Rec’t of Samuel Tucker of Rotterdam, 1664, to cozen Samuel Tucker of Bristol, for goods in the custody of cozen John Edwards, lately deceased in Virginia. Valentine Oldis, citizen and apothecary of London, brother of William Oldis of James River in Virginia, merchant. Deed dated June 5, 1668. Mary Moore of Bristol, late wife of Henry Moore of Bristol, mrchant, deceased, who dyed in Va. 1667. Conyers Bechinoe of London, mrch’t, power of attorney to his Brother Edward Bechinoe of ye Isel of Wight county in Virginia. 28 Aug., 1668. Deed of George Smyth and Anne his wife. Said George Smyth being a son of Arthur Smith deceased. Barbadoes, Mary Markes, of the Island aforesaid, appoints Mr. William Stringer of the City of Bristol, mrchant, her agent &c. 4 Sept. 1668.
(1) From Surry Co. records: Anthony Spilltimber made his will March 30, 1672. Names wife Mary, dau. Patty and dau. Martha, brother John. Speaks of a debt due from Capt. Jennings. In the same records Anthony Spiltimber is mentioned as son of Mr. John Spiltimber, dec., who died about 1656, leaving James Mason overseer of his will. (2) Henry Filmer was one of the justices of Warwick County in 1647; member of the Burgesses for James City Co., &c. His descendants lived for many years in Warwick Co.
227 Letter of Charles Toplady requesting Robert Kae to prosecute Mr. Richard Izard 1668. John Banton in the City of Bristol, merchant, resident in Virginia, power to Robert Kee or Thomas Taberer, 17 June, 1669. Mr. George Hardy aged 37 in 1670. Edward Gosling, commander of the Ship Coventry of Lon- don, power to Mr. Abraham Rouse to implead Capt. ffrancis Hobbs, planter, late resident in Isle of Wight Co., for a bill 1800b Tobacco and Caske due to me the said Gosling for his passage in the Ship Coventry and for the necessaryes received of me when he was on board the ship. 20 July, 1669. Deed of John ffulgeham, son and heir of Capt. Anthony, to his Brother Anthony, 19 Oct. 1669. Thomas Wood, sonne of Arthur Wood and Sarah Wooten, his mother, relict of Arthur Wood dece’d, to Richard Bennett of Blackwater. Barbadoes — Sir John Yeamans Barronet, now resident in ye Island aforesaid, who long since adventured goods to Va. by James Powell mrchant now resident in Va., appoints “my friend and nephew Joseph Woory, mrchant, to recover of Ja. Powell.” 27 Sept. 1669. Coll. James Powell and Anne my wife, lately the relict of Captain Henry Pitt deceased &c. 1667. Thomas Pitt was his son and heir, 1667. John Hasset of Bristol, goldsmyth, to Arthur Grant of Bris- tol, mrchant, to recover all goods lately belonging to my brother Samll Hasset, late planter in Va. 25 Aug. 1669. Bristol, the 28th of August, 1669. I do hereby assign unto Capt. Nicholas Tovey of Bristol, and mar. of the good ship called the Samll and Mary, five women servants by names as followeth: Dorcas Willineth, Joan Joyce, Elizabeth Blesby, Margaret, Robert and Grace Davis, to be made sale of in Va. for ye term of four years for ye proper acct of ye said Thomas Grey as witness my hand. Allowing for ye passage of ye servs. nine hundred pounds of Tob. p. head. — Thomas Grey; testes, Richard Ward, Mathew Stephens. Cart path mentioned, 1669. Capt. Arthur Grant mentioned.
228 Sisely Selden of Barnestable, in the Co. Devon, admx. of trees,” the tyme for their planting to be within two years after the date hereof &c. 1664. Moses Powell physician. 1671. William Woolard of the Isle of Wight, mrchant. 1671. Deed of William Woolard, late of Harwitch in Essex, mari- ner, but now resident of Isle of Wight Co. Va., heir of Justinian Cooper, long since deceased, to Coll. Nathaniel Bacon Esq. 1671. Bond of William Luff of the City of Bristol, mariner. 21 M’ch 1663. Bond of William Hamonds of same place, mariner, to Mr. John Brewer, of Isle of Wight in Va., Gent. Deed of John Harper of the City of Bristol, lynen draper, to Robert fflake, 1671. John Seward of Bristol mrchant, his power to Thomas Mil- ner of Nansemond and Mr. Edward Wickins of I. of Wight, 14 April, 1672.trees,” the tyme for their planting to be within two years after the date hereof &c. 1664. Moses Powell physician. 1671. William Woolard of the Isle of Wight, mrchant. 1671. Deed of William Woolard, late of Harwitch in Essex, mari- ner, but now resident of Isle of Wight Co. Va., heir of Justinian Cooper, long since deceased, to Coll. Nathaniel Bacon Esq. 1671. Bond of William Luff of the City of Bristol, mariner. 21 M’ch 1663. Bond of William Hamonds of same place, mariner, to Mr. John Brewer, of Isle of Wight in Va., Gent. Deed of John Harper of the City of Bristol, lynen draper, to Robert fflake, 1671. John Seward of Bristol mrchant, his power to Thomas Mil- ner of Nansemond and Mr. Edward Wickins of I. of Wight, 14 April, 1672.trees,” the tyme for their planting to be within two years after the date hereof &c. 1664. Moses Powell physician. 1671. William Woolard of the Isle of Wight, mrchant. 1671. Deed of William Woolard, late of Harwitch in Essex, mari- ner, but now resident of Isle of Wight Co. Va., heir of Justinian Cooper, long since deceased, to Coll. Nathaniel Bacon Esq. 1671. Bond of William Luff of the City of Bristol, mariner. 21 M’ch 1663. Bond of William Hamonds of same place, mariner, to Mr. John Brewer, of Isle of Wight in Va., Gent. Deed of John Harper of the City of Bristol, lynen draper, to Robert fflake, 1671. John Seward of Bristol mrchant, his power to Thomas Mil- ner of Nansemond and Mr. Edward Wickins of I. of Wight, 14 April, 1672.trees,” the tyme for their planting to be within two years after the date hereof &c. 1664. Moses Powell physician. 1671. William Woolard of the Isle of Wight, mrchant. 1671. Deed of William Woolard, late of Harwitch in Essex, mari- ner, but now resident of Isle of Wight Co. Va., heir of Justinian Cooper, long since deceased, to Coll. Nathaniel Bacon Esq. 1671. Bond of William Luff of the City of Bristol, mariner. 21 M’ch 1663. Bond of William Hamonds of same place, mariner, to Mr. John Brewer, of Isle of Wight in Va., Gent. Deed of John Harper of the City of Bristol, lynen draper, to Robert fflake, 1671. John Seward of Bristol mrchant, his power to Thomas Mil- ner of Nansemond and Mr. Edward Wickins of I. of Wight, 14 April, 1672.John Selden, late Barnestable aforesaid, mrchant, deceased, apoints Joseph Rudd of Barnestable to recover of William Burke of Chuckatuck, Virginia, merchant, &c., all goods &c. which goods were delivered by order of the sd. John Selden, my late husband, to Thomas Beaple of Barnstable aforesaid Mrchant and Robert Charton of the same mariner and by them left to the sd Wm Burke &c. for the use of my late husband &c. X the mark of Sisely Selden. Hester Phillips, wife of Wm. Phillips, ordered 30 stripes upon her bare back till ye blood follow, and to ask forgiveness of all her offences, for scandalizing and abusing Mrs. Silvestra Hill. 19 Sept. 1670. John Beale of London, mrchant, exor. of George Mansfield late planter in Virginia, appoints Major Nicholas Hill in James River &c. July, 1670. John Nosworthy leases 100 acres to Henry Skynner to plant one orchard of 160 trees, the trees to be “all Apple trees and pare trees,” the tyme for their planting to be within two years after the date hereof &c. 1664. Moses Powell physician. 1671. William Woolard of the Isle of Wight, mrchant. 1671. Deed of William Woolard, late of Harwitch in Essex, mari- ner, but now resident of Isle of Wight Co. Va., heir of Justinian Cooper, long since deceased, to Coll. Nathaniel Bacon Esq. 1671. Bond of William Luff of the City of Bristol, mariner. 21 M’ch 1663. Bond of William Hamonds of same place, mariner, to Mr. John Brewer, of Isle of Wight in Va., Gent. Deed of John Harper of the City of Bristol, lynen draper, to Robert fflake, 1671. John Seward of Bristol mrchant, his power to Thomas Mil- ner of Nansemond and Mr. Edward Wickins of I. of Wight, 14 April, 1672.
Deed of John Seward of the city of Bristol, mrchant, son and heir of John Seward, late of sd City, mrchant, (and whoe died in Virginia) to William Bressie of Va now resident in Bristoll, for land called “Levy Neck” in the Co. of Warwicksquick, 1672.
229 Deed of James Seward, of Bristol, to idem.
Power of Joan Gould, of Bristol, widow and admx. of Thomas Gould, to William Bressie of Va., 2 Dec. 1672. Land belonging to Capt. John Vpton mentioned as escheated for want of legal heirs. Deed of Robert Pitt Esq., 27 Nov. 1673, to son John Pitt. Deed of John Perry, son of Phillip Perry, of ye Whitemarsh, to Col Joseph Bridger, 1673. Deed of Humphrey Marshall of Isle of Wight &c. HM, his mark, and Priscilla Marshall P, her mark. Robert Bracewell, son of Robert Bracewell, minister, late de- ceased. Ja. Minge, surveyor, mentioned. Bounds between Isle of Wight and Nansemond Co. deter- mined by act of Assembly, 21 Sept. 1674. [Numbered Act VIII. in the printed acts.] ffrancis Hobbs’ now wife Mary was former wife of Nathaniel Floyd deceased. Richard Bracewell, son and heir of Robert Bracewell Clk, and Sarah his wife & c. 28 June, 1673. Thomas Greenwood made his will 19 M’ch., 1658. His widow Elizabeth m’d Mr. James Pyland, &c. Thomas Deacon of the Burrough of Warwick, in the county of Warwick, gent. deceased. “We the subscribed haveing drawn up a paper in half of ye inhabitants of Isle of Wight Co. as ye greivances of said county,” recant all the “false and scandalous” relfections upon Gov. Sir Wm. Berkeley Kt contained ina paper(1) presented to the Commis- sioners, and promise never to be guilty again of “ye like mutin- ous and rebellious practices.” Ambrose Bennett, John Marshall, Richard Jordan, Richard Sharpe, Antho ffulgeham, James Bag- nall, Edward Miller, John Davis X his mark, Richard Penny R. P. his mark. Acknowledged 9 April 1677. Test. Jno Brom- field Cl. Cu. John Marshall begs pardon in court on his bended knees for
(1) See Va. Mag. of Hist. and Biography, Vol. II, p. 380, where this paper containing the frievances of Isle of Wight is published in full.
230 “scandalous words” uttered before ye Worpfll Comrs (in accord- ance with their order) April 9, 1677. Petition(1) of John Jennings to the Right honoble Herbert Jeffreys, Esq., Governr and Capt Generall of Virga and the honble Council of State; that yor peticonr haveing reced sentence of ban- ishmt and Transportation of this his Maties Colony asks for a longer time for his departure since by reason of the late Rebellion his estate has been so wasted that he has not the money to leave, and because it would peril his life to undergo the said sentence in his “aged, sick and weak condition,” having the care also of a poor wife and children incumbent upon him. Letter of Gov. Herbert Jeffreys dated Swann Point April ye 9th 1677, asking the opinion of his councillors Nathaniel Bacon, Sen., and Col William Cole, as to the case of John Jennings. Endorsement of Nathaniel Bacon and William Cole approv- ing the Governor’s suggestion of a longer respite to Jennings. Endorsement by Jeffreys dated May 22, 1677, for a respite of time for the departure of John Jennings until the month of Sep- tember next. Robert Ruffin (and Elizabeth his wife) of Surry county, ap- parent heir and admr. of William Ruffin dec’d. 6 June, 1677. Power of John Jennings to his wife Mary to get in his debts, and to let his plantation for three years, and sell either mares, sheep &c. 5 Sept., 1677. John Bromfield, Cl. of the Court, 1678.(2) Marriage contract between George Cripps and Joyce Eng- land, of the parish and co. of Isle of Wight &c. 1678. Herbert Jeffrey’s warrant(3) to the Justices of Isle Wight and Nansemond counties to meet and proportion the billets, for each house, it being for his majesty’s service that one of the companies of foot do march into the counties of Isle of Wight and Nanse- mong; the inhabitants are to receive 2 shillings a week for each soldier’s accommodation; Col Joseph Bridger is requested to
(1) See Petition in full and QUARTERLY IV., pp. 113-114.
(2) From an order in Hening’s Statutes, it appears that John Brom- field married Bridget, a daughter or granddaughter of Rev. Richard Buck, the minister who opened with prayer the first Legislative Assem- bly in 1619. A land grant about 1658 describes her as widow of William Davis. (3) See warrant published in the QUARTERLY Vol. IV., p. 114.
231 meet the justices &c. This warrant was presented in court by Capt. Tongue (1) July 19, 1677. Alexander Culpeper, (2) Esq., surveyor-gen’ll of Virginia 1675. Major George Nosworthy, of Nansemond Co. Roland Place Esq., member of the Council — 1677. (3) Power of John Grascone of London, mrchant, to Dr. George Lee of Surry Co. on James River, doctor in physique, &c. 1678. Deposition of Francis Wade. Power of John Bland, merchant in London, acknowledged in London, to his wife Sarah, now bound from hence to Virginia to call to acc’t all persons in Va., particularly Mr. Bernard Sykes, and Mr. Codd and alsoe to enter into and take into her custody, &c. the several plantations of Bartletts, Kimerges, Herring Creek Mill, Jordans, Westeffer, Vpper Chippoakes, Sunken Marsh plantacion, Basse’s Choice, Jamestown lot, Lawne’s Creek, and all other lands &c. servants, slaves, chattels &c. Like- wise to receive &c of ye widow of Theodorick Bland, late of Bart- lett [Berkley] upon James River in Charles City Co. in Virginia, Mrchant, deceased &c. Sealed &e in presence of Anthony ffenn, Robt Mitford, Hump. Higginson, Edward Mowntague, Thomas Tanner. By another deed, Giles Bland was son of John Bland. Richard Jordan (4) [and Alice his wife], deed of gift to his son John. 1st 9ber, 1678. Mr. Tho. Merriweather, (5) of London, mrchant, 1678.
(1) Capt. John Tongue was Quartermaster in the Regiment sent over to subdue Bacon’s Rebellion, and Lieutenant in the Cold Streams Foot- guards. (2) Alexander Culpeper was brother of Lady Frances, wife of Sr. Wm. Berkeley. (3) Rowland Place was the son of Francis Place, the celebrated painter of York, and Ann Williamson. He married Priscilla, daughter of Sir John Brookes, of Norton, Co. York, Baronet. Rowland Place was born 1642, and died 1713. (See Familiae Minorum Gentium, Vo. III., p. 921.) (4) In the Surry Co. records Nicholas Meriwether was aged about 37 in 1668. At Bristol is the will of Jane Meriwether (1604). (5) In the adjoining county of Surry was a family of Jordans, viz.: (1) Col. George Jordan (Atty. Gen. of Va.) m’d. first, “Alice Miles, dau. of John Miles, of Branton, near Herreford, Gent., who died Jan. 7, 1650” (tombstone at “Four Miles Tree” in Surry). Second, Eliz. Coates, wid. of Daniel Coates. (2) Arthur, his brother, born 1626. In 1654 he mar- ried Eliz. Barins, had issue George Jordan, James Jordan, River Jordan,
232 Order in reference to the Quakers. Col. John Dodman’s dau. Susanna married (Capt. Robt Massy of Potomack. Col. John Dodman of Mulberry Island, gives all his right and title to certain lands to his dau. Margaret, who has married Appleyard, 28 Jan. 1679 John Pitt’s wife was the relict of Mr. Giles Driver, and gave her dau. Hardy five sheep, one young mare &c, warranting the sd mare to her the sd Hardy Driver: Deed 8 July, 1680. Lt. Coll Nicholas Hill, (1) of Isle of Wight, deceased, father
of Ralph Hill. Silvestra Hill, widow of Lt. Coll Nicholas. His youngest son Richard Hill. Deed to Major Samuel Swan. 1678. Be it known unto all men by these prsents that I Wm Bressie of ye Vpper parrish of ye Isle of Wight County in Virginia planter wth Susannah my wife have given granted enfeoffed from _______________________________________________ and Elizabeth Jordan. (3) Fortune, his sister, m’d Col. John Flood, inter- preter for the Colony, who had issue Christopher Flood and Walter Flood. Fortune Jordan m., 2dly, James Mills, merchant. By a previous mar- riage Col. John Flood had issue Capt. Thomas Flood, who succeeded him as interpreter, and Jane, w ho married John Cary, a prominentmerchant of London (see Surry Records). In the Surry records there is a deed (year 1688) of Lucy Jordan, wife of Mr. Thomas Jordan (the Isle of Wight man), conveying to Phillis Jordan that portion of land “which I hold in partnership with sister Susannah Branch and niece Eliz. Par- sons, dau. and sole heir of sister Judith Clay, dece’d, which land de- scended unto said Susanna, Judith, and Lucy, as daus. and coheirs of Capt. William Corker, dece’d” (son of John Corker). Witness, James Jordan, Richard Washington. In 1685 Lt. Coll. Wm. Browne and Mr. James Jordan presented in Surry as Inventory of the goods of Mr. Thomas Jordan, dece’d. There is in Surry the nuncupative will of Capt. William Corker “made at the house of his dau. Judity Clay in ye Isle of Wight Co.” Feb. 26, 1675-6. Divides his estate between his wife and his three daus: Susanna (who m. George Branch, Jr.), Judith Clay and Lucy Jordan; he confirms a gift to Elizabeth and Mary White, daus. of Capt. John White, of whom Elizabeth md. Capt. Robert Spencer, of Surry. Col. George Jordan names in his will his nephew Edward Bayley. So he had probably a sister who married Bayley. Col. Henry Browne of the Coucil, probably married Anne Flood, a sister of Col. John Flood. The Jordans of Isle of Wight were leading Quakers. In 1728 Samuel Bownas visited the staid with “Old Robert Jordan.” In company with Joseph Jordan he called on the Governor, who received him kindly and promised to release from prison certain friends who refused to perform militia duty. “Travels of Rev. Samuel Bownas.”
(1) Nicholas Hill, in 1635, patented 100 acres in Elizabeth City Co. for his own importation and a servant’s
233 us or heires and doe by these prsents ffor evermore give and grant and enfeofe unto Wm Yarrett, John Grove, ffrancis Wrenn, Ed- ward Jones, Thomas Tooke and Henry Wigge and the rest of the sevts of God frequently called Quakers, one house built by ye sd people in ye place called ye Levy Neck Ould feilds neare the creeke side to wo’rp and serve the liveing God, in spiritt and truth wth ground sufficient for a Graveyard and what more may be thought fitt, and shall suddenly be bounded by four corner Trees to be planted with free Egres and regress of ye sd people thrugh any of ye sd Bressies Land in any path that now leads to the sd House, and further that noe Lease neither Sale nor deed of guift that shall hereafter be made by us or either of us William and Susanna Bressie or Heires or Ass contrary to the true Intent and meaning hereof but shall be adjudged and is hereby declared by us to be null and illegall. Witness or hands and seals, and fur- thermore wee doe declare or intents and meaning to be that the right freedom and liberty herein conteyned shall extend to as many as hereafter shall receive and obey the Gospell and joyn unto the said people. WILLIAM BRESSIE. SUSANNA BRESSIE. Signed sealed and delivered in the prsence of us DANIEL SANBORNE. WALTER BARHEM. This acknowleded in open Court by Mr William Bressie and his wife to be t heir Act and Deed and Ordered to be Recorded ffeb 9th [1679]. Test, John Pitt Cler Cruiae. John Marshall’s deed to his sons Robert and Hunphry. 1680. Henry Hunt of Bristoll appointes Humphra Marshall of I. of W. 9 Mch., 1680. Power of Alice Hardy, A her mark, of the Isle of Wight Co., to her son-in-law Wm Mayo. John Lear (1) and Anne his wife, of the one pt., to Thomas Pitt
(1) In the Surry records there is a suit entitled “Col. John Lear as marrying exx of Col. John George vs. Thomas Jordan as marrying relict of Capt. Robert Spencer, 1680.” Capt. Spencer was born in 1630; was justice of Surry, and made his will March 5, 1678. He married several times. His dau. Anne mar. John Whitson, a violent rebel, hanged in
234 of the other all that messuage, late the plantacon of Coll. John George, which he bequeathed to his then wife, the abovemen- tioned Anne, on the south side of Castle Creek and Quarter Spring, which land is now in possession of Lt. Coll. James Powell. Ack. 9th June, 1681, by Coll. John Lear and his wife. Deed of Joseph Bridger, Esq., for certain land (left by Dr. Robert Williamson to Joan, his wife, for life, and then to his eld- est son Robert, which lands were found to escheat and were then granted in 1678 to said Bridger) to said Joan, now the wife of Mr. Robert Burnett. 8 Aug. 1683. Deed of Mrs. Dorothy Bond, widow of Major John Bond, (4) and his son John Bond to Joseph Bridger, 29 July, 1693. Michael ffulgeham warrants one acre of land to the church wardens and vestrymen of the Lower Parish of the Isle of Wight whereon the church house now standeth by deep Swampe — with consent of Anne my wife. 6 Sept. 1683. Will of George Hardy, (2) dated M’ch 16, 1654 — proved Ap. 14, 1655: After the decease of his wife all his land, housing &c., to be divided between his kinsman George Hardy, Jr. and Christian Wilson, for lack of heirs of G. H. then to fall to Thomas Hardy and Christian Wilson. My seal ring to my said kinsman George, and my wife my other ring: “100 pds of tobacco towards Bacon’s Rebellion. They had a dau. Martha Whitson. In 1675 Capt. Spencer married Elizabeth White, dau. olf Capt. John White (Gen. Court Records). Then he married Jane, who survived him. He names (in will pr. 1679) children Elizabeth and Ann, which last child was by last wife. Capt. John White, of James City, had, (1) John White (will proved in Surry, 1679). (2) Lucy m. Capt. William Corker. (3) Elizabeth m. Capt. Robert Spencer. (4) Mary m’d probably James Barrett. (1) Major John Bond had been a burgess during the Commonwealth, and at a time of the restoration he was removed from his office as justice by the House of Burgesses, “because of factious and schismatical de- meanor.” Hening’s Stats. at large, II, p. 39. (2) George Hardy came to Virginia before 1636, when he is called “Ship- right.” In 1644 he patented 300 acres (increased to 500 in 1648), situ- ated upon Lawne’s creek and bordering upon Alice Bennett’s land (doubtless widow of Robert Bennett, of London), for 6 persons, Thomas Sabin, Thomas Hardy, George Nettleford, James Strong, and John Smith. He had a noted mill, which is still used. From this family of Hardy was descended Hon. Samuel Hardy, a prominent member of the Continental Congress.
235 the Building of the church in this parish in case it be built with Brick.” To my kinsman George H. 3000 lbs of tobacco to buy two servants. In case of the return of 27 hds of tobacco I sent Home last year doth come in I then ordain that George Hardy “shall have a feather bed, Rugg, sheets, and Blankets out of the produce of it, also I give him all my wearing appearal. Signed and Sealed in the presence of us Karbry Kigan, Jno. Jennings, George Woodward. John Pit Clk Cur.” Deeds of Ralph Hill and Hannah, his wife, of the Vpper parish of the Isle of Wight, to Henry Baker, mrchant, for land bounded by Lawne’s Creek and the cart path that leads to Mr. George Hardy’s mill. 16 Jan. 1688. Will of Karbry Kigan, of the Isle of Wight Co., dated 12 Jan. 1657; pr. 9 Feb. 1657: 1-3 part of all his estate to his wife, Catherine, for life, all the rest of his estate to the child his wife now goeth with, and in case the said child doth not come to per- fection or capacity to inherit, all my said lands &c to go to Robert Cowfield (son of Capt. Wm. Cowfield). “To said Robert Cow- field all my Books, my Rapior and my fflowling piece”; to Eliz- beth Cowfield a feather Bed and new Cupboard; to Capt. Wm. Cowfield my seal ring, and to his wife 10 shil. to buy her a ring; to Katherine, daughter of John Dew, a cow called Star and six pewter dishes. I bequeath to the church of Isle of Wight one hogshead of tobacco containing 350 lbs; cow calves to John King and to John Norton’s child; 20 shillings to my country- man, John Rogers of Middle Plantation, to buy him a ring. Capt. William Cowfield and my wife Katherine Exors. Will of James Took, dated Feb. 1, 1659: Daughter Dorothy wife of John Harvey; sons William Took and Thomas — to which last I give my Signett Seal Ring. 3. Will Book, commencing in 1666.
236 Will of Paul Luke, dated 14 Oct., 1666: proved 10 Dec., 1666: wife Sarah; children Richard, Catherine. Justices in 1667: Lt. Coll. John George, Adjutant Nicholas Hill, Mr. James Boucher, Mr. Nicholas Smith, Capt. Joseph Bridger, Capt. Anthony ffulgeham. 1668, there were also Mr. John Hardy, Mr. Thomas Taberer, Mr. James Powell.
Will of Robert Bracewell, dat. Feb. 1667; pr. May 1, 1667. Daus. Jane Stokes, Rebecca; sons Richard, Robert. Legacy toservant Elizabeth Hall; Mr. Richard Izard and George Gwillin to be guardians, &c., 40 shillings to each for a ring; dau. Anne Bagnall. Sons Robert and Richard “shall be putt to schools until they cann both write and read.” Teste, John Jennings, Cl. Cur.
Will of Daniel Boucher, (1) dated 4 Dec., 1667; proved 1st May, 1668: Legacies to kinsman Robert Boucher, Hodges Coun- cill, William and Mary, children of William Hunt, Elizabeth Munger, dau. of John Munger, Elizabeth Davis, dau. of John Davis, dec’d. Item I give to the poorest people in the parish to be distributed amongst them, such as my overseers hereafter mentioned shall think fitt, one oxe commonly called Brand, with a good loaf of bread to each of the poor people aforesaid.” To dau. Elizabeth all my lands, and in case of her death before age or marriage, my land to my kinsman Robert Boucher, and all the balance to the grandchildren of my wife Elizabeth Boucher equally. John Hardy and Thomas Taberer overseers; and to each of them 20 shillings.
Will of Henry King, of the Isle of Wight county: To my daughters Susanna and Elizabeth my whole dividend of land, nine hundred acres according to patent and former gift given me by my deceased father and confirmed by my mother Elizabeth King, since deceased; my wife Ruth King to have a life interest, &c. “I give one hundred Acres of land lieing and being next ad- jacent to Mr. England, And being exchanged for land of myne now in the possession of Mr. England, to this parish where I now live towards the maintenance of a free school.” Legacies of horses, and mares and cattle. Dated 2 march, 1668, pr. 3 May, 1669.
Will of John Reynolds, dated March 11, 1668; proved 3 May, 1669: brothers George Rivers and Richard Reynolds, sis- ters Elizabeth Rivers, Jane Reynolds — sister Rivers’ dau. Mary.
Will of John Bond, gent., dated 2 May, 1669; pr. 9 June, 1669: Son William Bond, son John, wife Dorothy Bond; Capt. Francis England. Left. Arthur Smith and Mr. Richard Sharp overseers.
Will of Richard Izard, X his mark: Daus. Mary and Martha Izard, wife Rebecca; legacy to James Bagnall, son of James Bagnall, my son-in-law.
(1) Member of House of Burgesses in 1653.